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    <body><![CDATA[“However this war may end, we have won the war against you. None of you will be left to bear witness, but even if someone were to survive, the world would not believe him. There will be perhaps suspicions, discussions, research by historians, but there will be no certainties, because we will destr...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/7494552">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Primo Levi's two books about his time in a concentration camp and the Robinson Crusoe-like return to his home in Turin don't fail to disapoint.  They also don't fail to amaze, astound, depress, sadden, and ultimately uplift as you are carried along on what has to be one of the most improbably journe...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79648845">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[It is hard for me to translate my experience of this book to words. It's not that my feelings are ambiguous, or even that I can't find the right words; my problem is that it created such an emotional and intellectual response from me, that I'm finding it difficult to know where to start, or how much...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66987858">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Impressive recount of a Jewish prisoner's days in Auschwitz and his journey home. I liked the dry, observant style. The author does not show hate for his tortures, just describes the facts. The reader is the judge.<br/><br/>The passage which made the biggest impression on me is where Levi talks ab...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77295267">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is beyond any possible rating. It is, I believe, the book that says the definitive word about holocaust and about human cruelty. After this, nothing else can be said and no explanation can be given to what men can do to other men. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[In het Nederlands gelezen. Titel: <em>Is Dit Een Mens</em><br/><br/>Zeer indrukwekkend en aangrijpend verhaal. De omstandigheden in het kamp worden zo goed beschreven dat je de vernederingen, de pijn, kou en honger bijna kunt voelen. Ik had me nooit zo gerealiseerd dat er een gigantisch taalprobleem was in...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/55368167">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is the kind of book you dont really want to review, it is above that. Levi recounts his experience in an observant, almost unemotional manner. There is no anger or hatred in his telling, he recounts the facts as they were. I think that for me, this style made it all the more emotional. I cannot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80092631">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[História que descreve o dia-a-dia de um prisioneiro de Auschwitz. O escritor enaltece a força humana e a capacidade de resistência acima de qualquer dor física mesmo quando a própria dignidade é posta em causa. O próprio escritor teve essa experiência quando esteve em Auschwitz durante um an...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81942665">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Recomendo este livro para as pessoas que queiram saber maisdos campos de concentração.<br/>Trata-se de um livro facil de ler, apesar de ter palavras em alemão, mas que estao traduzidas.A personagem principal, como é obvio, é o Primo Levi, porque foi ele mesmo que passou por tudo o que o livro ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/14253753">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Read this in Italian in college. Who knew that the town where I studied in Italy was the last stop in Italy before Auschwitz? They didn't tell us American exchange students about that. Great book, but I somehow think that the beauty of the writing would be lost in English.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I´m working as a tour guide in the concentration camp Sachsenhausen and Primo Levi´s description of his life in Auschwitz have been invaluable for my understanding of the Holocaust. It is a magnificent book, probably one of the best to have been written in the 20th century.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A haunting account of the holocaust. How this ever happened so recently and how it still happens in some shape or form around the world to this day means that Levi s book is just as relevant now. What is a man?]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA['With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly in touch with the minutest workings of the most endearing human events and with the most contempible. What has survived in Levi's writing isn't just his memory of the unbearable, but also, in THE PERIODIC TABLE and THE WRENCH, his delight in what made the world exquisite to him. He was himself a magically endearing man, the most delicately forceful enchanter I've ever known' PHILIP ROTH]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[this is a stunning read, beautifully written, provides an insight into the sheer humanity of a man under the most horrendous circumstances of the holocaust.  Not written in a vitriolic, hateful or vengeful style]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Accepting the ongoing reality of the human soul is an especially current interest, this sounds like a perfect fit. I have his 'Periodic Table' (also not yet read), but not this. I see .. the library..]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[What affected me the most about this book, is not so much his account at Auschwitz but rather his battle to return home after the liberation.  There are numerous accounts, books, movies, etc about what life was like in the concentration camps, but rarely any details about what happened after –  yo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/20951101">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this one in Italian for my major in 2001. I really enjoyed it.  It's the story of Primo Levi who was a prisoner in Auschwitz.]]></body>
    
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